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Lifelong Learning Fall 2008 Fridays: September 19 – November 7 OLLI Open house: Tuesday, August 19 See page 20 for details (OLLI) at the University of Connecticut Waterbury, CT Lifelong Learning Providing adults 50 and over with opportunities to engage in intellectual development, cultural stimulation, and social interaction. to the University of Connecticut’s Waterbury Campus! I am honored to lead this campus whose mission is public outreach, engagement and academic quality. I offer my sincere congratulations to all of the OLLI members and volunteers who have made the Osher Lifelong Learning It is hard to imagine that we are entering our fourth session of OLLI at UConn—Fall 2008! We are now serving Institute at the University of Connecticut a success. OLLI is well known in the region, and has a story to tell nationally. residents from over forty Connecticut cities and towns. We continue to strengthen as an Institute and grow our course Proudly, OLLI at UConn will be featured in the 2008 Volume of LLI Review, an academic journal for lifelong learning. offerings—in numbers and in diversity of topics. In this fall 2008 program brochure please note the following changes OLLI members come from all walks of life with various demographic, educational and ethnic backgrounds. I wish and improvements. success to all of the new and returning OLLI members as you pursue learning for the sheer joy of it! On behalf of the UConn Waterbury family, we look forward to sharing wonderful experiences along the path of lifelong learning. • OLLI is conducting its first ever OPEN HOUSE! This event is intended as a reunion of all former and current OLLI at UConn members and as an open invitation to your friends and the general public. This event is filled with options to excite and engage. Please plan to attend and bring many with you! Please see page 20 for details. William J. Pizzuto, Ph. D. • OLLI has announced a ground-breaking idea—an OLLI Intergenerational Chorus, directed by the accomplished Christopher Shay. This is truly going to give OLLI a voice—if you like to sing, come to the brief audition and information session. Please see the announcement on page 17. Director, UConn Waterbury Campus • OLLI is offering a new course in the form of a 14-week intergenerational course with Dr. Ruth Glasser. Seating is limited and this course starts well in advance of our OLLI Session. Consider this exciting new format! See page 6 for details. Please Note: this course begins August 28. • OLLI has significantly more Writing and Literature courses—you asked for them and now we have them! • OLLI is expanding its partnerships! We welcome the Connecticut Dance Theater and the Thomaston Opera House to the mix of Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Partnerships! • OLLI now has new course time slots to accommodate our growth and success. We now have an early morning time slot (8:15 AM) for the early risers among us. The four time slots provide opportunities for more choices and less competition among so many great course offerings. Please always check meeting times and days— they do vary this session. The world of lifelong learning at UConn is designed with you in mind—it is a place where you can come and share knowledge, ask questions, engage socially, and think about the future. Along with the OLLI staff, the OLLI Leadership Council, our Standing Committee members and OLLI volunteers, I invite you to come and enjoy! On behalf of the Leadership Council and membership of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) here at Have a powerful and transformative year in learning—and as always, please tell a friend! UConn in Waterbury, I extend to you warm greetings for a successful and enjoyable semester. The various OLLI committee members have worked hard over the last few months to bring you a selection of classes that will pique Sincerely, your curiosity, challenge your intellect and delight your senses. The OLLI Café roster of speakers is equally as interesting and I know you will be eager to join fellow members at our special OLLI events. Please make time to meet members of your Leadership Council. We are here to represent you, listen to your wants and needs and help you enjoy the learning experience together. Lifelong learning enhances our everyday lives. It gives us the opportunity to Brian G. Chapman, Ed.D. expand our knowledge, meet wonderful neighbors and just plain have fun. Have a wonderful semester! Director of OLLI Nancy Via President, OLLI at UConn Waterbury OLLI FALL 2008 | 2 OLLI FALL 2008 | 3 “I have had such a wonderful experience learning again. I am 72 years old and I don’t get too many opportunities for learning.” Mission OLLI at UConn is a member-driven, community-based program offering non-credit learning experiences (courses, lectures, and special events) for mature adults who want to engage socially and intellectually with their peers as teachers and learners. Situated on an intimate, state-of-the-art university campus with traditional- age students and research faculty, OLLI also provides a fertile ground for an intergenerational interaction and exchange of ideas. The urban campus reaches out to a diverse region which provides opportunities for partnership with other cultural, educational, and arts organizations. AnnuAl MeMbership And benefits Since January 2008, OLLI has had Annual Membership cycles. Memberships are either spring-fall or fall-spring. If you paid your membership fee in spring 2008, you do not have to pay the fee again for this semester. If you did not pay the annual membership fee in spring 2008, you can join today for fall 2008/spring 2009 and receive your OLLI membership card. Fees are non-refundable! Annual OLLI Membership is $60 – membership benefits include • Participation in OLLI Café Activities –“A place to lunch and learn.” Members are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch. Coffee and fruit will be provided. • Opportunity to register for OLLI course ($25 each course in fall 2008, subject to change in 2009) • UConn Waterbury Friday only parking pass (for fall 2008) • OLLI discount book card for UConn Co-op bookstore • Entrance to Special OLLI Events • Discounts for Non-Osher Events • OLLI membership card leArning Activities The OLLI Program currently includes short-term, non-credit courses, OLLI Café (lunch and learn) activities, and special events. Courses generally meet at the Waterbury campus once a week on Fridays. Most programs and classes are scheduled during daytime hours. See course descriptions for specific times. Please note the newly added class times. Brown Bag OLLI Café presentations are held from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM in the multipurpose room. to join and register for fall classes, please fill out the enclosed membership form and return by thursday, september 4, 2008 OLLI FALL 2008 | 4 OLLI FALL 2008 | 5 Course Descriptions fALL 2008 NEW! OLLI the basics of Microsoft Office ancient civilizations, and has conducted GENEALOGY INTERGENERATIONAL Word and excel lectures on the topic. A returning OLLI presenter, Connie speaks fluent Spanish, What branch Are You from? LEARNING 8 Sessions – Fridays from 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM Italian, and several dialects of Southern researching Your family tree. immigrants and the shaping of September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10, Italy. Her annual travels to Italy focus on the October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 8 Sessions – Fridays from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM American history culture and archaeological research. Room #224 September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10, 14 Sessions – Thursdays from 11:15 AM to 1:45 PM October 17, October 24, October 31, November 7 CURRENT EVENTS August 28, September 4, 11, 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16, Microsoft Word: learn the fundamental Room # 218 (October 10 class in #317 and November 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4 techniques of Word in this hands-on class. 7 class in #102) Learn how to create, edit, format, print, save, radical islam and the european Room #210 and retrieve documents. Microsoft Excel: a union Do you want to know more about your dynamic spreadsheet package designed to family history but don’t know where to start? PLEASE nOTE: this course meets 4 Sessions – Fridays from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM allow users to combine number crunching Then this is the course for you! It will focus on thursday September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10 and outstanding results. Learn how to create, on the fundamentals of genealogy. Members Room # 201 This course deals with the origins of format and print spreadsheets; entering and will learn how to organize, use and properly immigration to the American colonies using formulas and functions. A working This course will examine the role of the record information on family group sheets and the post-colonial United States, and knowledge of computers is a prerequisite for European Union with regard to the growth of and pedigree charts. Research will include the interaction of immigrants and their this class. radical Islam in Europe. It will start with the the use of vital, church, census, immigration, descendants with the social, political, and response to the Arab oil embargo in 1973, and military records. A variety of sources will economic life of the nation. It employs a Leon LeClerc also teaches Demystifying then examine a range of current issues: the be investigated including use of the Internet. combination of history, fiction, memoir Personal Computers – Basic substitution of the EU for traditional nation A special Saturday trip to the Connecticut and social science, texts, discussion, Introduction to Computers. states as the focus of political identity and State Library’s Department of History and film viewing, and oral history fieldwork loyalty; the EU’s efforts, particularly since Genealogy will be arranged.
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